One more thing to be irritated about
To an anonymous writer who has incurred my squirreley wrath at ass o' clock in the morning:
DO NOT put an author's note right smack in the middle of a paragraph, okay? It's a bad idea in any case, but when we're talking about fiction, it is a HORRIBLE idea. Nothing snaps a reader out of the story faster than the author coming along out of nowhere in the middle of a sentence describing a hand-job to say, "Now come on, we know he's not really that great at multitasking." If you've REALLY got to make some point about it, do it in the STORY, don't fucking pause right there, tap me on the shoulder and DISTRACT ME. It's goddamn sloppy and annoying and I will close that window so fast, it's not even the least bit funny. Then I will never, ever, EVER read anything by you ever again. I will also anti-rec you to anyone that should ask. Doing that kind of crap is BAD WRITING.
You should be ashamed.
Now I'm going to bed without my bedtime story, you ass.
DO NOT put an author's note right smack in the middle of a paragraph, okay? It's a bad idea in any case, but when we're talking about fiction, it is a HORRIBLE idea. Nothing snaps a reader out of the story faster than the author coming along out of nowhere in the middle of a sentence describing a hand-job to say, "Now come on, we know he's not really that great at multitasking." If you've REALLY got to make some point about it, do it in the STORY, don't fucking pause right there, tap me on the shoulder and DISTRACT ME. It's goddamn sloppy and annoying and I will close that window so fast, it's not even the least bit funny. Then I will never, ever, EVER read anything by you ever again. I will also anti-rec you to anyone that should ask. Doing that kind of crap is BAD WRITING.
You should be ashamed.
Now I'm going to bed without my bedtime story, you ass.